1. Asoka Siriwardana & Tharanga Ranasinghe Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL): providing global visibility to local research output CALIBER 2013

2. Contents Introduction to SLJOL History of SLJOL Coverage of SLJOL Services of SLJOL Usage of SLJOL Further Suggestions

3. About SLJOL A service to provide access to Sri Lankan published research Increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship Database of journals published in Sri Lanka, covering the full range of academic disciplines The objective is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey

4. About SLJOL Member service of Journals Online (JOL) Project of INASP Other JOL services: – Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL) – Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) – Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL) Uses Open Journals System (OJS) – an Open Source Software developed by Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

5. History of SLJOL Initiated in August 2008 with six (06) journals Project is supported INASP Providing access to TOCs Abstracts Full text

6. Coverage of SLJOL 46 journals listed (as of 30 th January, 2013) 44% of journals published by professional associations 42% of journals published by universities and affiliated institutions 8% of journals published by research institutions

7. Subject Coverage of SLJOL – Agriculture (7 journals) – Architecture, Building and Planning (1 journal) – Biological Sciences (5 journals) – Education (2 journals) – Environmental Sciences (1 journal) – Law (1 journal) – Mathematics and Computer Sciences (3 journals) – Medicine and Dentistry (16 journals) – Multidisciplinary (1 journal) – Physical Sciences (6 journals) – Social Studies (6 journals) – Subjects allied to Medicine (3 journals)

8. Statistics 364 ToCs 3611 articles 97% of full text articles

9. Services of SLJOL Alphabetically listed journals Sophisticated searching tool Email alerts service Own home page for each journal Online full text for many journals

10. www.sljol.info New Journal s New Issues Browse Journals Link to Journal s

11. CMJ Journal Image Link to Current Issue Journal HomepageCurrent Issue Link to PDF Link to Journal Archive

12. CMJ Full-text Archives

13. Usage of SLJOL - December 2011

14. Importance of SLJOL Provides a platform to publish local journals online Hosting full-text of journals Facilitate worldwide access to the full text of Sri Lankan Journals

15. Further Suggestions Covering all local journals Maintain high quality service Serving as an Indexing Service Facilitating entire Editorial Process Introducing a range of access models